A palynological investigation of a second millennium BC bank-system in the black moss of Achnacree |
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Authors: | G Whittington |
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Institution: | 1. Department of Geography, the University, St Andrews, Fife, Scotland KY16 9AL |
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Abstract: | Evidence of agricultural activity in Scotland during the Bronze Age is sparse. A bank system of that date, covered by a deep peat accumulation, in Argyllshire, Scotland has preserved a podzolic palaeosol. Palynological investigation of the palaeosol allows a consideration of potential prehistoric land use. The existence of a well developed iron pan in the palaeosol divides the soil pollen into two contrasting groups, suggesting two quite distinctive periods of land use. Also discussed are the problems which the processes of podzolization cause pollen analysts, the dating of buried soils and the possibility of periodicity in pollen movement through a soil. |
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Keywords: | palaeosol iron pan podzolization bank system radiocarbon dating palynology bronze age peat soil pollen pollen concentration Scotland burning |
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